Video: Bigfoot Captured in Russia?

My friend Shawn is on the ball where it concerns Bigfoot and when big news hits, he keeps me informed.

Apparently, the Russian Minister of Labour and Social Development of the Republic, Bagaudin Marshani, has reported a captured a two-meter tall Bigfoot-like creature.

I’m not going to waste any time writing a long lead in as Shawn has it covered pretty well. So here’s the scoop from him:

“This was just published on the INTERFAX.RU website moments ago. According to the Russian Minister of Labour and Social Development of the Republic, Bagaudin Marshani, they have just captured a two-meter tall Bigfoot-like creature. There’s a slight discrepancy in the translation of the Russian text to English, but it appears the creature is similar to a large gorilla with short hands and looks “like a man on two legs.”

The creature was caught by border guards and brought to a zoo in the village of Surkhakhi Nazran after a hunter saw the creature grabbing one of his sheep and dragging it into the woods.

“I can tell you that an animal like a gorilla, about two feet [or two-meters, 6.5 feet (according to translation of first paragraph)] tall, dark in color, presumably a female, is very large. Gorillas usually relies on the front hand, and it stands upright like a human. Snarls and produces strange sounds,” said the Minister.

The minister says the animal is very frightened, eats mostly meat and vegetation.

Here’s the Russian to English translation from interfax.ru:”

In the mountains of Ingushetia border guards

On December 28. INTERFAX.RU – Military Border Control Federal Security Service of Ingushetia in the forest district of Ingushetia Dzheyrahskom caught a strange two-meter-like creature on Bigfoot, said the agency “Interfax-South”, Minister of Labour and Social Development of the Republic Bagaudin Marshani.

“A few days ago in the area Dzheyrahskom hunter saw the bear grabbed the sheep and dragged into the woods. The hunter went after him, fired several shots, after which the animal jumped on two feet and disappeared into the woods. Today, the border guards conducted a sweep of the area, and in a small valley, found a strange animal, “- said B. Marshani.

According to him, caught being brought to the zoo, located in the subordinate rest house in the village of Surkhakhi Nazran district of Ingushetia.

“I can tell you that an animal like a gorilla, about two feet tall, dark in color, presumably a female, is very large. Gorillas usually relies on the front hand, and it stands upright like a human. Snarls and produces strange sounds,” – said the Minister.

According to him, the animal is very frightened, eats mostly meat and vegetation.

“Some people say it is Bigfoot, others – that the big ape, but to be honest, I have this in my life seen” – said B. Marshani.

According to him, usually in large gorillas are long and massive hands. And this animal hands are short and it is like a man on two legs.

“As far as I know, a few days in the republic from Moscow’s experts have to come and pick up a strange animal,” – said the head of department.

“This one is from news.mail.ru, and they also said that the unidentified creature is seven feet tall, like a snowman.”

Ingush border guards detained a snowman

In Dzheyrahskom district of Ingushetia border guards detained an unidentified creature seven feet tall, like a snowman.

“A few days ago in the area Dzheyrahskom hunter saw the bear grabbed the sheep and dragged into the woods. The hunter went after him, fired several shots, after which the animal jumped on two feet and disappeared into the woods. Today, the border guards conducted a sweep of the area and found a small valley, a strange animal “- quoted Lenta.Ru Minister of Labour and Social Development Bagaudin Marshani Ingushetia.

Snowman brought to a rest home in the village of the FSB Border Surkhakhi Nazran district of the republic, and placed in a zoo. The Minister argues that the captured animals – the female two feet tall, stands upright and produces incomprehensible sounds. It feeds on plant and animal food.

Of course we can always count on Matt Moneymaker to shoot down anything that doesn’t involve him.

Now, I do have an opinion on this but it’s best left unsaid for now. Although, it is strange that the “news camera” keeps a fair distance from the cage and oddly never has the “Bigfoot” in focus. Am I starting to spill my opinion? OK, I’ll stop before I go too far.

I defer to the GT faithful. Is this a big honkin sham or the real deal?

I grew up in rural NWPA, surrounded in forest. I took an early interest in cryprozoology and sharks and have read many books on various crypto subjects such as Bigfoot and Megalodon over the years.
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To me that just looks like someone in a suit, but i’d love to be proven wrong.

tivitinc

UPDATE: As we suspected, the video has turned out to be a publicity stunt, specifically aimed at drawing attention to low income families. How Bigfoot fits into helping the poor must have been lost in translation. Russian YouTube user PilatN helped shed some light on the situation this morning:

Marshani said that with this “Christmas jokes” the republic’s authorities have decided to draw public attention to the problems of orphans and children from poor and low income families. Residents of Ingushetia and the neighboring regions, who came to look at the “snow man”, could donate any amount to charity. The role of “bigfoot” performed official holiday home which is located at the zoo.

Henry

Granted this is Russia we are talking about, but is this really the best someone with the resources of a government can do???

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At the risk of coming off a bit strong, I would have to say that I would not trust Bagaudin Marshani further than I could throw him by his nose hair.

He is really more of part of an occupying force targeting Chechnya than of any kind of “ministry of labour and social development.”

The name of the organization is a bit more sinister when you realize how hot a flashpoint this area is between Russian and Chechen forces. Like maybe his “real” job is making sure that the trains run on time and in very interesting ways.

ANYONE associated with the local “military” of BOTH of these countries, involved in any real, meaningful way with the so-called power structure is very probably also a war criminal of one stripe or other, and NOT to be trusted with any announcements of anything more serious than the contents of their toilets that particular morning, and only with a lie detector test at that.

When one of these creatures is captured or killed, I will only believe it when I hear it from the science or medical camps first.
[discounting "cover-ups" of course]. If the Police or military are announcing it, I am immediately going to assume it’s disinformation or some kind of social/psycho experiment, like U M M O or alien abductions…

I mean, I’m all for big foot, and a true believer, but damn, this is a terrible fake.

According to “Factual” information about bigfoot, they stand anywhere from 7-8.5 feet tall and weigh in at 400-600lbs. That “thing” in the cage does not have the height or build that a supposed real bigfoot would having. -I’m using the interviewee as a reference.

Not only that, but an animal as elusive and “wild” as this wouldn’t be all relaxed in the cage. Wouldn’t be surprised if it ripped its way out